The Fed’s loan program aimed to ease cash shortfalls at the banks and prevent credit markets from freezing as the financial crisis worsened. Most interesting is the big banks on the list have have insisted they never needed government help: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase, for example.

Texas banks on the list include Comerica, Zions Bancorporation, parent of Houston-based Amegy Bank, and Texas Capital Bancshares. Among the more curious recipients of the Fed’s largesse: Harley-Davidson and McDonald’s. Just think how much worse the crisis would have been if the market for Big Macs had shut down.